WANGAL COUNTRY. Lilyfield House is an inner city home, conceived as a spatial assembly of internal and external rooms and volumes, opening to the light, to green spaces and rising to the district outlook. The rooms and platforms of the house pivot around a central atrium, integrating portions of a historic shop.

Accessible from only two sides and subject to acoustic constraints under a flight path, these 3-storey alterations and additions cater for family living and working from home.

A reduced materials palette of off-form concrete, black steel, plywood and bamboo flooring and historic fabric in white-set plaster, provides a generosity of space and light for a family of five.

Lilyfield House is effcient in its use of an inner city site. Its envelope re-uses existing fabric with gardens multiplied upwards and new additions designed to maximise environmental outcomes in their orientation, section, materials, envelope and landscape. The house optimises passive heating and cooling and cross ventilation. Lilyfield House uses heat-pump hot water and high-efficiency European hydronic heating systems. Air-conditioning is not required.

Rainwater harvesting is connected to toilets, laundry and garden, and LED lighting used throughout.

Team: Angela Rheinlaender and David Haseler
Builder : Durant BDM
Structural Engineer: TTW
Sustainability Consultant: Integreco
Civil Engineer: Novati Consulting Engineers
Lighting Designer: Petra Kleegraefe
Landscape: The Butchart Garden
Artworks: Renata Pari-Lewis, Katherine Campbell, Cate Shaw